Immediate thoughts on Week 5

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Note to self: Three and a half hours up and three and a half hours back is about as far as one should go in a day. Go up the night before next time.

People are going to stop letting me come to games if they’re on long win streaks, I’m guessing. I’ve been in the house as the three longest winning streaks of the D3football.com era have ended — the two Mount Union streaks and now Trinity (Conn.)’s 31-game win streak.

Not that it was rocket science to see this game coming — as a loss, anyway, not as a monkey stomp. Trinity is breaking in a new offensive line and starting quarterback Eric McGrath threw one pass last year. New coach and coordinator. On the road. Etc.

Williams is good enough to get talked about in the 22-30 range in the poll, along with the top teams in the Liberty League right now.

Elsewhere, the jarring double-take on early leads by Mississippi College over Hardin-Simmons, McMurry over Mary Hardin-Baylor, Willamette over Linfield and North Park over North Central didn’t exactly last.

Oddities: Wilmington doesn’t score a single point in its first three games, then comes out today and shuts out Muskingum 20-0. … People who took in the Western Wisconsin doubleheader of UW-Whitewater at UW-Eau Claire and UW-Oshkosh at UW-River Falls only got to see two teams score. … Yeah, two games tomorrow, both starting at 2:30. Won’t be able to follow these much, working at NBC starting at 3. … Four wins for Hobart by a total of 19 points, not very inspiring. … Sul Ross State was 6-for-15 from three-point range in its 60-55 win against Howard. OK, maybe not — when those teams met in basketball last year, the lowest score for either team in two meetings was 74. … Ohio Wesleyan, ouch. … There were just six games with a 19-18 score from 1999-2005, but three more today.

Your thoughts, deep or otherwise:

58 thoughts on “Immediate thoughts on Week 5”

  2. To be the best you have to beat the best. Woooh! Thank you for quoting the legendary Ric Flair, Keith.

    I totally agree. There is no reason to move up and be an also-ran when they can rule D3. Do the students at DII and DIAA schools take their football anymore seriously than D3 students do? It’s an honest question. I would guess that there is no difference. Basically you have big time D1 football and all of the TV coverage and prestige it brings. Then you have the other divisions, which by and large the national media ignores. I seriously wonder if winning a D2 championship carries any more prestige than winning a D3 championship. Arguably it could carry less, since the D3 program has to go to the top without the benefit of scholarship athletes.

    Oh well. I wish Mt Union would move up too, and Rowan would join a new conference with Redlands. 🙁

  3. Can someone please help? If I’m not mistaken Mt. Union can’t move up in football because of the attendence rules for Home Football games. Mens basketball and Football have different rules than sports like Lacrosse. I think Mt. Union would need to avg a certain number of fans or hit a certain number of fans for a home game just once in e revolving two year span. I could be wrong, but who knows. I agree with the statement. You want to be the best then beat them. Mt. Union is beatable. Its just up to your schools football team and coach to figure out how. ONU, Rowan, St. Johns and Mary hardin Baylor have all figured out how. Three of those where on Mt. Unions home field.

  4. This are now making sense….

    Jim,
    Click that link that Keith put on here. Read the page. NCAA says Basketball and Football cannot move up without the entire department moving up to that level, too.

    Think about it like this: MUC moves up the DivII because it wants a challenge in football. Now they have to do some scholarshipping for every single sponsored sport.

    Seriously people, read the quoted materials.

  5. I watch D-3 football every week and I must say The liberty league teams
    come to play every week no matter what the records!
    I will tell you one thing That Hobart football team is all heart and just when you think they are out of a game you better look again! They never quite!
    That can only mean for some exciting football in the weeks to come!

  6. This is a football-centric website, so MUC is the big dog on this site.

    However, the OAC is quite successful in its own right, thank you very much!

    In 2005-06, the OAC web site shows that 8 of the 10 schools either won the conference or the tourney or both. The 2 schools that did not win an OAC conference championship or tourney were Marietta, the 2006 D3World Series Champion and Wilmington, the 2004 Women’s Hoops Champ. Men’s Hoops fans remember the 2002 Otterbein Men’s Hoops Champs led by MVP Jeff Gibbs.

    The OAC seems to handle itself and MUC very well. There is no reason to kick MUC out! If you don’t like what MUC did to you in football, just wait until the next sport and yell even harder!

    http://www.oac.org/Championships.asp

  8. Watch the Crusaders destroy th Hardin-Simmons Cowgirls on Saturday, I think UMHB is the most underrated team in DIII football.

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